Information Literacy

PLAGIARISM

The following information on plagiarism is taken from:

Gibaldi, Joseph. The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: The

Modern Languages Association of America, 2003. Print.

You have plagiarized if:

You took notes from the text that did not distinguish summary and paraphrase from quotation. Then you presented wording from the notes as if it were all your own.
You presented facts without saying where you found them.
You repeated or paraphrased someone's wording without acknowledgment.
You took someone's unique or particularly apt phrase without acknowledgment.
You paraphrased someone's argument or presented someone's line of thought without acknowledgment.
You copied and pasted information from the Internet without quotation marks or without citing the source. (Gibaldi 75)

Keep the following three categories distinct in your research notes:

summaries of others' material
exact wordings you copy
your own ideas, questions, and responses (Gibaldi 75)

Self- plagiarism is also a concern in academe. Gilbaldi discusses the ethics of repurosing

previous work:

If you must complete a research project to earn a grade in a course, handing in a

paper you already earned credit for in another course is deceitful. Moreover, you lose

the opportunity to improve your knowledge and skills. If you want to rework a paper

that you prepared for another course, ask your current instructor for permission to

do so. (74)

MLA FORMAT
Lansdale School of Business students are required to use the guide “MLA Format for Article Critiques and Research Papers” to produce correctly formatted and cited work.
Lansdale School of Business MLA Format

AVOIDING PLAGIARISM - INTERACTIVE TUTORIALS AND GAMES
The Goblin Threat Plagiarism Game.
The Goblin Threat game was created by Mary Broussard, Snowden Library, Lycoming College.
http://www.lycoming.edu/library/instruction/plagiarismgame.html

The Cite is Right!
This tutorial on plagiarism is presented in a fifties game show format. It's fun, entertaining, and informative. Presented by the Reference Staff of the Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers the State University, Camden, New Jersey.
http://library.camden.rutgers.edu/EducationalModule/Plagiarism/citeisright.html

This tutorial on plagiarism presents scenarios that involve research and plagiarism.
Presented by the Reference Staff of the Paul Robeson Library, Rutgers the State University, Camden, New Jersey.
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/douglass/sal/plagiarism/intro.html

“You Quote It, You Note It!”
Vaughan Memorial Library, Acadia University, Nova Scotia
http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

The OWL Writing Lab at Purdue has excellent information on all aspects of composition, research, documentation, and plagiarism. In this exercise, choose passages to paraphrase and compare your efforts with the suggested answers.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/1/

San José State University Library.
Please select to use Flash or non-Flash version of the tutorial.
http://tutorials.sjlibrary.org/tutorial/plagiarism/tutorial/introduction.htm?flash=yes
http://tutorials.sjlibrary.org/tutorial/plagiarism/tutorial/introduction.htm?flash=no

University of Southern Mississippi. Quiz. Identify acceptable use or plagiarism.
http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/plag/whatisplag.php

“Academic Integrity Tutorial, York University presents three Case Studies of student writing.
In each case, we will present the original source, and some writing samples using this source. Your task will be to identify which writing samples display academic integrity, which do not, and why.”
http://www.yorku.ca/tutorial/academic_integrity/caseintro.html

Longman Press Avoiding Plagiarism tutorial
http://ed.oc.edu/writersblock/avoidplag/

The following web sites offer advice, examples, and exercises to recognize and avoid plagiarism:
http://plagiarism.org/
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml
http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/plagiarism.shtml
https://www.indiana.edu/~tedfrick/plagiarism/
http://www.plagiarized.com/

PLAGIARISM DETECTORS
Free - be aware that quality varies:
http://www.plagiarismdetect.com/
http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/
http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/
http://www.scanmyessay.com/
http://www.eduify.com/plagiarism?source=adwords?ad=plag_top&gclid=CNvGn_-40ZwCFZtC5godHkSdIg
http://tinyurl.com/m6b82a
Fee based:
http://writecheck.turnitin.com/static/faq.html

CITATION GENERATORS
The student is responsible for providing MLA citations that meet the requirements of Lansdale School of Business. All online generators issue disclaimers as to their accuracy. You may use the citations generated as a basis for your MLA citation, but you must make the necessary revisions. Keep in mind the EBSCOhost and CQ Researcher databases provide MLA citations.

KnightCite!
http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/index.php
Maintained by the Hekman Library at Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI.

EasyBib (Current MLA format)
http://www.easybib.com/
This site formats and alphabetizes bibliographies for MLA style. MLA citation is free. Users can save a bibliography online or import to Word. You must format the imported citation and assure that it is correct. It includes a feature to upload journal article citations from databases.

NoodleBib Express
http://www.noodletools.com/login.php
Just need one or two quick citations? No need to log in or subscribe -- simply generate them in NoodleBib Express and copy and paste what you need into your document. Note: citations are not saved and cannot be exported to a word processor using this version of the tool.

Landmark Son of Citation Machine
http://citationmachine.net/

Recently updated and fairly accurate. This citation generator was constructed by and for teachers.

BibMe
http://www.bibme.org/
BibMe is a free citation generator developed at Carnegie Mellon University that produces citations and bibliographies in APA, MLA, Chicago and Turabian styles. It has some features not found in other free citation generators, such as autofill and the ability to switch between citation styles.

Zotero
http://www.zotero.org/
Zotero is a free, open source utility that works in the Firefox browser to help users collect, manage and cite sources.

FEE-BASED CITATION GENERATORS
EasyBib (Current MLA format)
http://www.easybib.com/
This site formats and alphabetizes bibliographies for 37 types of sources in MLA, APA, or Chicago/Turabian style. MLA citation is free. The cost is $14.99/year for students for other citation styles. Users can save a bibliography online or import to Word. You must format the imported citation and assure that it is correct. It includes a feature to upload journal article citations from databases.

NoodleBib
http://www.noodletools.com/index.php
NoodleBib is an award-winning site developed by librarian Debbie Abilock that formats and alphabetizes bibliographies in MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian styles for over 50 types of sources. The cost is $8.00/year for students. Users can save bibliographies online or import to Word. NoodleBib includes fully integrated note-taking feature, which is very useful when writing papers.

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